SUEZ LNG NA LLC today announces that its liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship, SUEZ MATTHEW, has loaded the 1000th cargo of LNG from the Atlantic LNG facility in Trinidad. This event marked the ship's 174th loading at Atlantic LNG, representing a total of 17.4% of all LNG loadings there and the most of any single vessel calling on this critical LNG export facility. The SUEZ MATTHEW also loaded the very first cargo at Atlantic LNG more than seven years ago in April 1999. SUEZ MATTHEW has become a critical means by which the New England region receives its natural gas. The ship, one of several in the SUEZ fleet, makes regular deliveries directly from Trinidad to SUEZ LNG NA's import facility in Everett, Massachusetts. The Everett Terminal, which is the first LNG import facility ever built in the United States, currently serves approximately 20 percent of the region's natural gas demand for home heating, industrial use and electricity production. Thus far in 2006, the Everett Terminal has received more LNG shipments than any other U.S. LNG import terminal, and this particular cargo on SUEZ MATTHEW, which arrived in Everett on October 18, 2006, is the 734th cargo delivered to the terminal since its start-up in 1971.

With demand for environmentally sound natural gas on the rise throughout the United States and especially in New England, LNG has become an increasingly important part of the energy supply mix. For that reason, Neptune LNG LLC, a SUEZ LNG NA affiliate, is seeking approvals to build and operate an offshore deepwater LNG port that would serve the growing New England market. ?We are drawing on our global experience in the LNG sector as well as our intimate knowledge of the New England marketplace to develop the Neptune deepwater port, an important new source of natural gas that will be available to customers as in 2009," said Zin Smati, president and CEO of SUEZ Energy North America. The Neptune deepwater port will be located approximately 17 km off the coast of Massachusetts and will provide an average of 11.3 million cubic metre of natural gas per day - enough to serve 1.5 million homes daily. During periods of peak demand, Neptune will be capable of increasing its delivery rate to 21.2 million cubic metre per day. Beyond New England, another SUEZ affiliate, Calypso LNG, LLC, is also developing a deepwater LNG port that will address Florida's growing demand for natural gas. The Calypso project is proposed to be located approximately 16 km off the southeast coast of Florida. Natural gas deliveries from this project could commence as early as 2010.